"If you don't move your hand, it will swell up. Do you know you move your hand about a million times a day?"

The Oscar-winning star was taken to hospital after he suffered a broken arm, broken elbow and damage to his shoulder after the accident which occurred as he was driving his 1997 Nissan Maxima car in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi.

The car went off the shoulder of the road and flipped over "several times", according to one onlooker.

Morgan was removed from the car wreck using the 'jaws of life', a hydraulic rescue tool, and was airlifted to the Regional Medical Center in Memphis, Tennessee.

His representative said at the time: "He has a broken arm, broken elbow and minor shoulder damage but he is in good spirits."